The DD Brothers and The Dementors

[alshainofthenorth]

No: HPFGUIDX 81226

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, Granny Goodwitch
<grannygoodwitch613 at y...> wrote:

> Now what I'm wondering in all this is what's Aberforth REALLY up to?
 In OOP, Harry thinks he smells goats when in Hogs Head, where
Aberforth works.  So we are led to suspect that something's still
going on with goats and charms--why else would a bar smell like goats?
 We know that Albus doesn't have a blind faith in the Ministry, so are
some of you, like me, beginning to suspect that the DD brothers are
working on a plan to find another way to combat the evil forces-ie
Dememtors, Death Eaters (Why are the called Death Eaters anyway?  And
has it occured to anyone that goats have a reputation for eating
anything--could this be a connection?) and of course, Voldemort himself.
> 
We don't KNOW for sure that the landlord at the Hog's Head is
Aberforth, only that he has a crooked nose, grey hair and looks
vaguely familiar to Harry. (that said, I believe it's Aberforth
myself, and that Albus and he are working on something together, but I
haven't a clue about what. Maybe he's Dumbledore's secret agent in the
more unsavoury parts of the WW and the whole goat scandal was part of
his cover.)

Personally I believe that the task to somehow neutralise the Dementors
is going to Remus Lupin and that it's going to be fairly important
fairly soon. Perhaps one of the main themes of the sixth book.  

My own pet theory about the Death Eaters is that the word is a pun on
'necromancer'. Others have compared them to vultures (search the yahoo
site for Death Eaters and you'll find the discussion)

Alshain, fairly new myself